BIOGRAPHY:
Andrew Block (Director) received the Ovation and L.A. Drama Critics Circle awards for Best Director & Production for the world premiere of John Pollono’s Small Engine Repair, starring Jon Bernthal. Selected credits include: NYC premieres of Adam Szymkowicz's Fat Cat Killers and the NYC Fringe hit Clown Bar 2 (Audience Choice, Most Fringe awards); Kelley Nicole Girod’s This Stretch of Montpelier and Body of Water (The Fire This Time Festival, Le Petit); Mark Jason Williams’ Straight Faced Lies & The Other Day (Theatre at 14th St Y); John Pollono's Lost and Found (FringeNYC Encore, Lucille Lortel Theatre); David Caudle’s Downward Facing Debbie (ProjectY); Sondheim's Company (Gallery Players); Why Bother? (Best Director, Planet Connections Festivity); Adam Rapp’s Bingo With the Indians (GLAAD award nomination for Outstanding Theatre, West-coast premiere); Bedroom Farce (FAPC); Reach (Ivy Theatre Company); Avenue Q (Manhattan College); Inherit the Wind (Manhattan College); Rumors (AADA); The Shape of Things (Adelphi University); Recovery (FringeNYC). He lives and works in New York City with his wife, Katina, and their two cats, Ella & Louis, and is a proud native of New Orleans.
EDUCATION / TRAINING:
BFA - Adelphi University, Performing Arts
MFA - DePaul University, Master of Fine Arts Acting